Shaun Gayle

LifeSource hopes to revive the “Monsters of the Midway” spirit by inviting fans to its annual blood drive, co-sponsored by Goode Foods, at Soldier Field, 1410 S. Museum Campus Drive, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18. Several players will be on hand to thank donors, pose for photos and sign autographs. For the first time ever, LifeSource will provide donors with guided tours of the home locker room as it celebrates January as National Blood Donor Month. Participating blood donors will have the opportunity to meet current Bears placekicker, Robbie Gould, as well as Hall of Fame defensive lineman, Dan Hampton (1979-1990), and former linebacker, Doug Buffone...

Former Chicago Bears defensive back Shaun Gayle has filed a lawsuit against the National Football League, joining hundreds of former players who say repeated head injuriesthey suffered on the field have produced debilitating health effects.Gayle alleged...

Which nickname is future NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal going by now that’s he’s retired? Big Daddy? Superman? Shaq Fu? The Big Aristotle?
Nope. Diesel. I know this because that’s how he introduced himself when I answered the phone Wednesday.
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A Cook County jury today awarded $40 million to the family of Rhoni Reuter as the result of a civil case against Marni Yang, the woman found guilty of Reuter’s murder.
Yang was convicted in March of killing Reuter, the pregnant girlfriend of former...

Just walked out of the morning web meeting, where section editors talk about the various stories bubbling up on their areas of expertise.Makes for an intersting breaking news reading list.There's a sentencing in the Marni Yang trial this morning. At the...

Jury selection has begun in the murder trial of Marni Yang after the judge denied a stay in the proceedings so she could get her hair done. Yang is charged with shooting and killing Rhoni Reuter, who prosecutors assert Yang perceived as a rival for...

Marni Yang was sentenced to life in prison this morning for gunning down the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle, with the judge citing the “methodical, meticulous and maniacal manner in which you committed this crime.” Judge...

Recordings of Marni Yang, which were taped without her knowledge and were central to her conviction this week on murder charges, have been released by the Deerfield Police Department.The recordings, released Wednesday in response to a Freedom of...

A jury in Lake County has found Marni Yang guilty in the 2007 murder of the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle.Following a dramatic 11-day trial, the jurors reached their verdict after four hours of deliberation today.
Yang, Gayle and...

More than three years after the murder of Rhoni Reuter, and more than two years after Marni Yang was charged with the killing, Yang's lawyers rested their defense in less than 30 minutes today.
The defense rested after Yang told the judge that she did...

Shaun Gayle acknowledged from the witness stand this morning that he had sex with Marni Yang the night before she allegedly killed another woman who was carrying his baby.
The former Chicago Bears player, who so far has been questioned only by...

The killing of the pregnant girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle was "cold, calculated and premeditated," prosecutors said today as they outlined their case against Marni Yang.But defense attorneys countered in their opening remarks...

The 12 men and women who will decide the fate of Marni Yang –- the woman accused of killing the girlfriend of former Chicago Bears player Shaun Gayle and her unborn baby -- have been selected.Following the selection of five men to serve on the Lake County...

Five men –- but so far no women –- have been chosen to determine the fate of murder defendant Marni Yang.The first day of jury selection in the Lake County trial of Yang -– a 43-year-old Chicago woman accused of killing the girlfriend of former Chicago...

Former teammates and friends solemnly gathered Saturday morning to attend the funeral of former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church on the city's South Side.
Hundreds of mourners filled the main floor and balcony of the...

A jury will be allowed to hear a taped conversation between Marni Yang and her best friend that allegedly implicates her in the murder of the girlfriend of former Chicago Bear Shaun Gayle and their unborn child, a Lake County judge ruled today. Judge...